Photograph of Hon Lai Chu by Jeffy Lau In Hon Lai Chu’s newly translated novel Mending Our bodies (Two Strains, 2025), intimacy turns into a matter of state coverage. The Conjoinment Act, a fictional authorities mandate that requires or encourages {couples} to bear surgical fusion, is not only a grotesque medical process—it’s a literalized metaphor for the […]

Bushmills, County Antrim, Northern Eire / Picture by Sean Kuriyan / Unsplash What does it imply to be a Northern Irish author? Many years after the top of the Troubles, it stays a tough query to reply. From The Image of Dorian Grey to Ulysses, Dracula to Ready for Godot, the island of Eire has produced […]